Aerial recreation apparatus, &amp;c.



No. 663,004. Patented Dec. 4, |900.

F. A. BELLMIY.4 AERIAL RECBEATIQNy APPARATUS, 8:0.

(Ap i 0Q atAQXL filed July 9, 19

W52 571ml@A No. 663,004. Patented Dc. 4, |900.

F. A. BELLAMY.v AERIAL RECREATION APPARATUS, sw.. (Applicaci'on' mea .my 9, 1909A (No Model.) 2 She.e t,s-Sheewt .2.

NITED` STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK ADOLPHUS BELLAMY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

AERIAL RECREATION APPARATUS, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,004, dated December 4, 1900.

Application filed. July 9,1900. Serial No. 23,017. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK ADoLPHUs BELLAMY, dent-al surgeon, residing at Holly Lodge, Streatham High Road, London, S. W., in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Aerial Recreation Apparatus Applicable also for the Conveyance of Goods; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in aerial recreation apparatus applicable also for the conveyance of goods, and has for its object to provide an apparatus adapted either for recreation purposes or for the conveyance of goods and merchandise from one given4 point to another, which apparatus in its form as applied to recreation purposes will enable passengers to be conveyed through the air from a departure-platform to an arrival-platform at a very high rate of speed in such a manner as to afford the said passengers a most exhilarating experience Without any accompanying danger.

Furthermore, the invention is equally adapted for the rapid conveyance of goods and merchandise across rivers, precipitous country, between warehouses, and undersimilar circumstances.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevational view of the complete apparatus in its form as a recreation medium. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the car and its connections, Fig. 3 being a similarview of a convenient form of car releasing and checking device for employment with this invention. Fig. 4; is a plan view showing how two of my amusement apparati may be arranged side by side.

Referring to the drawings, wlierein like letters represent corresponding parts throughout all the figures, a represents Ytwin towers, preferably of girder-work form, the space between which towers is spanned by a bridge or girder b, preferably having a central apex b. The ends of the bridge or girder b are attached at b2 to the towers a, the connecting-points between the ends of the said bridge or girder and the towers being near the upper ends of same.

towers ct, such platforms being arranged thereon to face each other. In connection Vwith each platform is provided suitable releasing and checking or arresting devices, a convenient form of which is shown by Fig. 3. This gravity catch device consists in a concave bed g, having slots g provided therein one behind the other. Pivoted within these said slots at g2 are toggles g3, the noses g4 of which are adapted to normallyproject through the said slots g and be above the surface of the bed g, while the tails of such toggles, in which corresponding recesses or notches g5 are provided, depend below the said bed.

Pivoted to the sides of the frame or case h of the arresting mechanism at 77.' l have two catch-arms gs, whose lower extremities are pivotally connected at g7 to a connecting-lever g8, through an opening in which one end of an operating rod or lever G takes, said rod or lever being capable of ready `removal therefrom. The arresting mechanism before described operates in the following manner: When the car or bob e reaches the arrival-platform at the end of its flight, it strikes the projecting noses of the toggles g3 and tu rns'same on their pivotsout of the operating position, causing them to fall forward in the direction the car is proceeding and allowing the car or bob to pass over same until its momentum is eX- pended and the point of inertia reached, whereupon such car or bob will endeavor to swing backward. The toggles in the meantime have automatically fallen into their normal position and prevent the retrogade movement of the car. The said toggles are prevented from being turned back upon their pivots by means of the noses of the catcharms gs, which engage with the notches or recesses g5 in the toggles g3 and maintain such toggles in their upright or operative position until the operating-rod Q9 is disconnected from IOO the connecting-lever @whereupon the weight of the car or bob is enabled to turn the said toggles back upon their pivots out of their ar resting or operating position and so pass on its journey toward the opposite platform.

Although the before-described form of `arresting and releasing device is a convenient Y one, I lnay employ any suitable equivalent in lieu thereof.

In operation the car or bob is raised to the required height (by manual, hydraulic, or`

the said car or bob on a journey it is raised y above the platform to a suitable height in any well-known and desirable manner. 1

The lower or other desirable parts of each E 'tower may be fitted up as refreshment-kiosks, z waiting-rooms,or the like in the usual manner.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, Vis

In aerial recreation apparatus", the combinationof two towers having platforms projecting from the opposing sides thereof, provided with car retaining and releasing devices and elevating mechanism of a bridge spanning the space between said towers; said bridge having its ends joined to the upper ends thereof, and having a central apex; and oscillating beams or pendulums swung from said bridge; and a car swung from the ends of said oscillating` beams or pendulu ms,where by it is always enabled to maintain its equilibrium irrespective of the position assumed by the oscillating beams or pendulums, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK ADOLPHUS BELLAMY.

Witnesses D. MoDoNALD, ANDREW WILLIAMS. 

